Author: WTN News

If you want to get a glimpse into the technology trends of the future, don't assemble a focus group - unless, of course, it is composed of kids. In this edition of the Innovation Zone, columnist Tom Koulopoulos explains why adults are so “out of...

Milwaukee, Wis. - The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has received a five-year, $3,082,752 renewal grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue to develop the College's Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) as a unique world resource of data and...

Madison, Wis. - Devesys Technologies, Inc. announced today that the company has begun shipping TrakWeb 3.0, the newest version of their browser-based case tracking and investigation solution. Intended for large organizations with users scattered widely across the country or around the globe, TrakWeb 3.0...

Madison, Wis. - Governor Jim Doyle today announced the appointment of Richard J. Leinenkugel as the Secretary of the Department of Commerce. Leinenkugel, currently the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, will begin serving on September 29, 2008. “Dick...

What is a software-intensive business? And why does it matter? Columnist and software consultant Robert Merrill has a few ideas, including the following advice: an organization must never forget that it is a software-intensive business and not a software company, and keep advancing its core...

Barrington, Ill. - In an effort to provide clinicians with comprehensive patient data at the point of care, GE Healthcare IT today introduced Centricity Enterprise Monitored Care, an application that integrates clinical and medical device data under one standard platform. Developed in partnership with the...

Guri Sohi, former chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Computer Science Department, believes that computing talent at UW-Madison could attract more technology giants like Microsoft and Google to the Capital City. Sohi, who will work with people in the Barcelona Super Computing Center during a...

Yahoo! and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will establish a student-staffed technical support center on the Oshkosh campus this fall. The center will employ UW-Oshkosh students and provide technical support to some of Yahoo!'s 17,000 employees. Students will have the opportunity to work part time and...

COMCAST is going to limit the amount that Internet customers can download for any given month and so are other cable companies, laments columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he openly wonders what the era of metered usage will bring. ...